Can plugins provide macros Reading the docs it seems like no Pants #plugins

Can plugins provide macros? Reading the docs it se...

gorgeous-winter-99296

09/29/2022, 8:50 PM

Can plugins provide macros? Reading the docs it seems like no; they have to be put into a file and registered separately - but it'd be very helpful.

gorgeous-winter-99296

09/29/2022, 8:52 PM

Use-case is to be able to do defaultable "parametrization" -- I have 5 things I want to parametrize on the run command of my plugin. This is the 5 flavors of kubectl resource action - create, apply, delete, replace, describe. I don't want to force users to manually deal with that. 🙂

gorgeous-winter-99296

09/29/2022, 8:53 PM

E.g., if my raw target is

cluster/dash:k8s

that'd likely be "describe" and then I want

cluster/dash:k8s.apply

, or something to that effect. So essentially parametrize, but to the best of my understanding and testing I can't put a Parametrize in the default of a field either. And that is more verbose... 😛

curved-television-6568

09/29/2022, 10:43 PM

sounds like a command/option to the run command, something like:

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./pants run --kubectl-cmd=apply cluster/dash:k8s

kubectl-cmd

could default to

describe

for instance. In that case, it’s a subsystem you want to register for that to work.

happy-kitchen-89482

09/29/2022, 10:57 PM

A plugin can provide a target generator that in turn generates these 5 targets, I think?

gorgeous-winter-99296

09/30/2022, 7:51 AM

Both good options, thanks both of you! I think a target generator will be more ergonomic (less noise to remember). I'll investigate that and see how it works.

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